Supreme Court Declines Case Over Texas Two-Step Bankruptcy Tactic

In 2004, Pitchford, then 18 years old, and Eric Bullins, then 16, carried out a robbery at a grocery store in Grenada, Miss.

During the crime, prosecutors said Bullins fired the shots that killed the store’s white owner, Reuben Britt.

Because Bullins was a juvenile at the time of the offense, he was not eligible for the death penalty under constitutional continue reading …